Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/galˀwā́ˀ

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Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From pre-Balto-Slavic *golHwáH, from Proto-Indo-European *golHwéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *gelH-.

Noun

*galˀwā́ˀ f[1][2][3][4]

  1. head

Inflection

Declension of *galˀwā́ˀ (ā-stem, mobile accent)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative *galˀwā́ˀ *gálˀwāiˀ *gálˀwās
Accusative *gálˀwā(ˀ)n *gálˀwāiˀ *gálˀwā(ˀ)ns
Genitive *galˀwā́(ˀ)s *galˀwā́u(ˀ) *galˀwṓn
Locative *galˀwā́iˀ *galˀwā́u(ˀ) *galˀwā́(ˀ)su
Dative *gálˀwāi *galˀwā́(ˀ)mā(ˀ) *galˀwā́(ˀ)mas
Instrumental *gálˀwāˀn *galˀwā́(ˀ)māˀ *galˀwā́(ˀ)mīˀs
Vocative *gálˀwa *gálˀwāiˀ *gálˀwās

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: golva
    • Latvian: gal̂va
    • Lithuanian: galvà
  • West Baltic:
  • Proto-Slavic: *golvà (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. ^ Balto-Slavic Mobility as an Indo-European Problem, J. Jasanoff
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*golvà”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 176: “*golʔwáʔ”
  4. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “galva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 162: “*golʔwáʔ”
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